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Cheap Malaria Drug Holds Promise for Millions

It's based on 2000-year-old herbal remedy

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 4, 2008 3:15 AM CDT

(Newser) – The lives of millions of children  may be saved by a new technique for producing a malaria drug at a 10th of the cost of current treatments, making it accessible the world's most impoverished people, reports the Independent.  The technique involves inserting a dozen...   Read full story »

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